FLOW OF INFORMATION FOR MOORING FORCES 



SHIP GEOMETRY 

 + 

 OTHER BOUNDARY COND. 



EXTERNAL FORCING 



FUNCTIONS 

 WAVES, WIND, CABLE 



CALCULATION OF 



HYDRODYNAMIC 



EQUATIONS 



EXPERIMENTAL 



DATA 

 OVERRIDES THEO- 

 RETICAL VALUES 



NUMERICAL 

 REPRESENTATION 

 OF EXTERNAL FORCES 

 SUCH AS SPRING CON: ETC 



NUMERICAL 

 CALCULATION FOR 

 SHIP RESPONSE 

 IN t or w domain 



SELECTION OF A 



"SAFE" LINE AND 



MOORING GEOMETRY 



see Oortmerssan or 

 Kaplan 



Transparent to 

 User 



POSSIBLE STORAGE 

 OF DATA FOR 

 FUTURE USAGE 



User accessible 



USER ACCESS 

 AND INPUT 



Figure 1 



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